One of our users asked us on our Facebook page: How to use thumbnails for previous/next post navigation in WordPress. The next_post_link and previous_post_link functions doesn’t have a simple enough thumbnail parameter which a new developer can simply turn on and off. In this article,… Read More »

WordPress menus are freaking awesome. The drag drop interface makes it really easy for WordPress theme developers and the users alike. In the past we have shown you how to add custom menu in WordPress along with how to style a custom menu. One thing… Read More »

Have you ever wondered how you could style different elements of the WordPress theme? Well it varies from theme to theme, but there are certain CSS classes and IDs that are generated by WordPress. If you are someone who is trying to style a theme,… Read More »

When creating WordPress site designs, have you ever had the urge to create a grid display of posts? The grid layout works great for media centric sites such as our WordPress gallery or another showcase type site. Theme frameworks like Genesis already has a pre-built… Read More »

Recently, we were working on a client’s site design that required us to display monthly archives arranged by year in the sidebar. It probably was really easy for their designer to mock it up in Photoshop, but it was a bit complicated to achieve in… Read More »

Recently we were asked how to display a limited number of tags after each post in your WordPress theme. Normally, you use a function the_tags() to display a link to the tags a post belongs to. However that function does not have a parameter to… Read More »

Recently, we showed you how to setup facebook comments for WordPress. One of the downside of using that plugin is that it overtakes all WordPress comment_count functions, and it outputs a facebook branded version of the comment count. This may cause issues to your WordPress… Read More »

WordPress has two ways of showing excerpts in a blog. One is by using the_excerpt() tag in your themes, and the other method is by using the more tag. The more tag allows you to specify where the cut off point is in a post… Read More »

Recently one of our users asked us how to display WordPress posts only if a specific custom field was present. After replying back with the answer, we thought it would best if we share with everyone else, so the larger community can benefit from it… Read More »

Disqus, a comment platform, tends to go out and change the comments number hook for WordPress. This may end up causing your theme to show the text “View Comments” instead of the actual comment count that you want it to show. The reason why Disqus… Read More »

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